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In response to District Ranger Derek Padilla's statement that there has been no official enforcement yet of road closures, what a truckload of manure. The USFS has been limiting access for years: Locked metal gates. Dusk-to-dawn access. Blocking ice-fishing access with dumping snow in Dolores. Not putting the docks in until June. Gill netting and killing walleyes that 90 percent of the fishermen want in McPhee.

Editor's note: The Forest Service has blocked County Road 28 to prevent it from being used by anglers attempting to avoid zebra mussel inspections; that has not eliminated ice-fishing access to McPhee Reservoir. The docks are generally in the water by Memorial Day weekend, water levels permitting. Regarding the walleye, management of wildlife is the responsibility of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, not the Forest Service.

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Monday, March 2

The Montelores Early Childhood Council holds its monthly luncheon meeting at 11:45 a.m., in downstairs meeting room 110, in the Johnson...